Restaurante Boca do Mar — Restaurant in Alcobaça

Well located on the sea front of the Sao Martinho do Porto bay, the atmosphere of this fish and sea food restaurant is on the chic side. We got caldeirada de peixe. It's a typical portuguese dish made of various type of fish and sea food cooked in a flavourful fish, tomato and spices stock with potatoes, onions and peppers. This one had good and bad sides. The good was that it had a lot of clams and mussels. The bad was that the fish parts were low quality: tails or part with a lot of bones and cartilages. The dish cost 50€ and is for two people, well served, which is reasonably priced. The service was not quick but it's understandable given the multiple components of the dish. We had several waiters, some nicer than others. Overall, it was...

Following what appears to be a change of ownership we were very disappointed with the food that we were served tonight We have been a patron of this restaurant for the last 14 years in all of it’s different guises By far the best was when it was in the Samar’s group ownership I had the entrecôte steak which was below par that was supposed to be served with potatoes which actually turned out to be crisps with a very poor salad (just a few pieces of lettuce and some chopped walnuts) My wife ordered the monkfish and prawns which turned out to be small pieces of squid with prawns Will not...

Disappointed: it used to be a good price/quality restaurant, with a genuine Portuguese cuisine. No longer, they changed the cook (maybe the owners) and now it pretends to be an upscale place but with prices 25% higher than in Lisbon for the same kind of food, but not really the same level of quality. Their prices belong more to London, Paris or Brussels than to a small town like Sao Martinho. The excessive prices are especially felt in the "couverts", bread, mineral water, and all the small things where they doubled the price compared to...